1 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 1: From Mediator's World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is 2 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:20,040 Speaker 1: Kel's we can review with Ryan kel Kellan now Here's Kel. Recently, 3 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:24,880 Speaker 1: in Kiowa Island, South Carolina, a client awaiting her appointment 4 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 1: at a hair and nail salon ended up being drugged 5 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:31,760 Speaker 1: into the water by an alligator and drowned. Yes, you 6 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:36,400 Speaker 1: heard correctly, a lady waiting for her nail appointment was 7 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:39,839 Speaker 1: drug into the water by a gator and drowned. The 8 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 1: proximity of your nail salon to alligators may very well 9 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:49,720 Speaker 1: be a factor in your Google reviews. The fifty seven 10 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:52,479 Speaker 1: year old woman was apparently getting too close to the 11 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 1: reptile in an attempt to take a picture. The owner 12 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:59,120 Speaker 1: of the salon screamed at her to get away, as 13 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:02,000 Speaker 1: the gator had taken a deer from the same spot. 14 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:07,240 Speaker 1: The woman refused. The proprietor's husband began running to the woman, 15 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:10,679 Speaker 1: assumedly to remove her from the water's edge and danger. 16 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:14,000 Speaker 1: At this point, the gator made its move by grabbing 17 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:17,160 Speaker 1: the victim by her leg and dragging her into the water. 18 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:20,039 Speaker 1: A rope was thrown to the victim by a neighbor 19 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 1: drawn to the scene by the screams, which she was 20 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:25,479 Speaker 1: able to grab. Now she had help on one end 21 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 1: and the gator holding her leg on the other. The 22 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 1: proprietor's husband began beating the gator on the head with 23 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:35,880 Speaker 1: a shovel. Eventually, the gator performed a death roll, which 24 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:38,520 Speaker 1: caused the victim to lose her grip on the rope 25 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:42,800 Speaker 1: and be drug under. Just moments before being taken below 26 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:46,640 Speaker 1: the surface, the victim apparently looked at her potential rescuers 27 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:50,360 Speaker 1: and said, in a very calm voice, I guess I 28 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 1: won't do this again. She got that right. Deputies arrived 29 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:57,960 Speaker 1: to a calm pond and surveiled the scene for at 30 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 1: least twenty minutes before the body surfaced. An attempt was 31 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 1: made to retrieve the victim, but the gator still had 32 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:08,480 Speaker 1: a hold of its meal. Eventually, the alligator surfaced in 33 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:11,160 Speaker 1: an area that allowed a deputy to kill the reptile 34 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:14,280 Speaker 1: with his nine millimeter pistol. Both the body of the 35 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 1: victim and the gator were retrieved and sent to respective 36 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:22,160 Speaker 1: facilities for autopsies. There have only been twenty three reported 37 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:25,800 Speaker 1: alligator tax in the state of South Carolina. Beaufort County, 38 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:29,120 Speaker 1: in which Kiowa Island is located accounts for more than 39 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 1: half of them. In fact, Hilton Head, the famed golf destination, 40 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:36,960 Speaker 1: is also located in Beaufort County, South Carolina, and it 41 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,960 Speaker 1: would appear that playing golf dramatically increases one's odds of 42 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 1: being bitten by an alligator. Golfer was bitten on the 43 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 1: calf by five foot gator on Port Royal Plantation. Another 44 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:53,640 Speaker 1: calf biter on Shipyard Plantation golf course, this time a 45 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:57,720 Speaker 1: female golfer two thousand five. Landscape around a golf resort 46 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:01,360 Speaker 1: two thousand nine, seventy seven year old golfer loses an 47 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:04,360 Speaker 1: arm and likely as game on Fripp Island to a 48 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 1: ten foot gator. In addition to landscape work and golf walking, 49 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,760 Speaker 1: your dog proved to be both near fatal and fatal 50 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:16,800 Speaker 1: on Hilton Head as well. Despite being occasionally problematic at 51 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:20,520 Speaker 1: the nail salon or the golf course, the American alligator 52 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 1: is a conservation success story. Their status is now threatened 53 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:28,800 Speaker 1: as opposed to their once federally endangered species listing. Alligators 54 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:31,639 Speaker 1: can be found from North Carolina through Texas, with a 55 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:35,400 Speaker 1: general proximity to the coast, but as a US fish 56 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 1: and wildlife employee in Florida once told me, if you 57 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 1: have water from a bird bath to a swimming pool, 58 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 1: you could have a gator. A female gator can lay 59 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 1: between twenty and sixty eggs, and when hatched, the young 60 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 1: will grow between three and eight inches a year. These 61 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 1: won't be considered adults until they hit six ft in length. 62 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:58,760 Speaker 1: That's roughly nine years from egg to adult. Although many 63 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 1: of the threats the American alligator have been eliminated, the 64 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 1: two major factors that continue to threaten them is the 65 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:07,760 Speaker 1: fact that they have an incredible instinct to return to 66 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:12,440 Speaker 1: their home locations. Relocated gators have been documented to return 67 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 1: to the scene of capture after being dropped over a 68 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 1: hundred miles away. The other is humans. Of course, we 69 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:22,039 Speaker 1: keep expanding into gator territory, and when we do, we 70 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 1: set up little golf communities complete with water features and 71 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 1: nail salons. Apparently you know places where gator wants to 72 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:34,839 Speaker 1: hang out. If you can't relocate an animal, the animals 73 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 1: typically put down shop guilt. Considering this inability to relocate 74 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:42,840 Speaker 1: a gator after it becomes a nuisance, it is up 75 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:45,479 Speaker 1: to us to keep them from becoming a nuisance in 76 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:48,240 Speaker 1: the first place, don't feed them, and don't go for 77 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:50,760 Speaker 1: a touch up on the nails, and ignore that. Don't 78 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:55,560 Speaker 1: get too close to gators. Warning signs this week three toes, 79 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 1: wildlife contest, tiger sharks, and so much more. But for 80 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:04,200 Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you about my week, I took off 81 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:07,919 Speaker 1: on yet another turkey adventure. Actually managed to locate some 82 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:10,920 Speaker 1: birds Friday night after a four and a half mile 83 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,440 Speaker 1: walk of no birds and a mix of old sign 84 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 1: and no sign. Just before dark, I had a possible 85 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 1: ambush scenario on a three package Jake's, but as I 86 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:23,480 Speaker 1: rounded the corner to cut the birds off, four bull 87 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:27,359 Speaker 1: elk stood in my way. Hello the so I went back, 88 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:29,800 Speaker 1: camped in the back of the truck, set the alarm 89 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:33,039 Speaker 1: for four am. I walked into the zone about four 90 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:36,159 Speaker 1: twenty am, trying to beat any hint of daylight in 91 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 1: the open terrain. I coyote, howled, crow called, owl, hooted, 92 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:44,279 Speaker 1: and could not get a gobble. Eventually I broke and 93 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:46,600 Speaker 1: gave a yelp, to which I got a half hearted 94 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:49,800 Speaker 1: gobble in response. Of course, I wasn't where I really 95 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:51,800 Speaker 1: wanted to be, but there was a good tree, so 96 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:53,800 Speaker 1: I set up the two hen decoys that had been 97 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:56,919 Speaker 1: packing around. I set them up for the most likely 98 00:05:57,040 --> 00:06:00,480 Speaker 1: line of sight to the bird, not some at a 99 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:04,680 Speaker 1: social scenario. The bird started gobbling three in front of me, 100 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:09,320 Speaker 1: the jake's one above in one way below. Of course, 101 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:13,280 Speaker 1: my mind started turning and imagining the very far off 102 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:16,360 Speaker 1: bird as the wise old gobbler. Then I heard the 103 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:19,200 Speaker 1: trio of young birds fly to the ground. I gave 104 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:22,720 Speaker 1: a yelp, yelp. At about five fifty am, the Jake's 105 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:26,159 Speaker 1: walked up to one hand decoy about twelve yards away 106 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:28,800 Speaker 1: and gave her the cold shoulder as they walked to 107 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:33,279 Speaker 1: the other hand. The difference between the two I do 108 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:35,960 Speaker 1: not know, but the bird they settled on is that 109 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:39,479 Speaker 1: Dave Smith decoy, So the Jake's must just like you know, 110 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:44,640 Speaker 1: expensive fake women. At five fifty three I took the 111 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:47,599 Speaker 1: biggest of the three, and at six am I was 112 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:51,920 Speaker 1: back changing at the truck. Then, fueled by quick success, 113 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 1: I decided it prudent to go to another region in 114 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:58,520 Speaker 1: Montana where I have valid turkey tags, Knowing that now 115 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:02,080 Speaker 1: that I had so easily bested three birds and put 116 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:04,840 Speaker 1: one on ice, I'd be able to collect two more 117 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:08,040 Speaker 1: before the weekend was out well four and a half 118 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 1: hours later, I was in a new spot anticipating turkeys, 119 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 1: which I could not locate for roughly seven hours. The 120 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 1: bird singular that I did locate actually walked past my truck, 121 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 1: gobbling as I was staring at my on X maps 122 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:26,040 Speaker 1: trying to figure out my next move. At seven thirty PM, 123 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:30,160 Speaker 1: I followed this bigger rope dragging Boss Tom Gobbler for 124 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:33,200 Speaker 1: another mile down to his roost, marked it on the map, 125 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:36,280 Speaker 1: and even laid my track on the app so it 126 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 1: would know exactly where to be. In the morning again, 127 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:41,960 Speaker 1: I camped in my truck with the alarm set for 128 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:45,680 Speaker 1: four AM. Began to plan, this time for a big 129 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:48,720 Speaker 1: old Tom. I was gonna bring the whole spread both 130 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:53,000 Speaker 1: hands in a very sharp looking jake decoy. Obviously, what 131 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:56,560 Speaker 1: would happen is the old Tom would get down, see 132 00:07:56,560 --> 00:08:00,360 Speaker 1: the young Jake inspecting beautiful hens right in his landings trip, 133 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:03,920 Speaker 1: and run into the waiting shotgun. This bird was as 134 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:06,920 Speaker 1: good as in the pot. The next morning, I'm in 135 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:10,680 Speaker 1: the spot, quietly and gently setting my decoys before even 136 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 1: a hint of light. The old Gobbler is calling. He 137 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:17,120 Speaker 1: doesn't even know he's as good as dead. Yet I'm 138 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:19,800 Speaker 1: fiddling with my camo on my phone, when all of 139 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:22,760 Speaker 1: a sudden I hear wings. He's flown down, and I 140 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:25,680 Speaker 1: don't even think it's legal shooting light. Yet on top 141 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:29,040 Speaker 1: of that, he's flown to an opposite ridge. I fumble 142 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 1: for my call, here him in response, and he starts 143 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:36,360 Speaker 1: to circle back around. I relax, knowing that old Tom 144 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:40,160 Speaker 1: is now back on my program. Then he gobbles continually 145 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:44,040 Speaker 1: from roughly my right elbow, across my back to my 146 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:47,559 Speaker 1: left elbow, and over the ridge to the left. I 147 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:51,200 Speaker 1: reposition and square up to his last gobble and scratched 148 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:54,960 Speaker 1: my slate call. Then there he is, standing tall on 149 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:58,360 Speaker 1: the little ridge, only about thirty yards away, looking down 150 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:02,199 Speaker 1: on the hen decoys. I should have shot him right there, 151 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:04,480 Speaker 1: but I had packed all this stuff with me in 152 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:06,720 Speaker 1: the dark for the purpose of him putting on a 153 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:11,200 Speaker 1: show getting sucked into the hand decoys, cautiously approaching until 154 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:13,640 Speaker 1: he sees the jake, at which point he loses his 155 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:16,920 Speaker 1: little bird mind and raises in. But what happens is 156 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:20,440 Speaker 1: he is quickly out of the shooting lane. He circles again, 157 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:24,160 Speaker 1: eyebawling in a way that if looks could kill that 158 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:27,960 Speaker 1: little jake decoy would have burst into flames. He continues 159 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,240 Speaker 1: to gobble. As I realized that this is his last 160 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:34,480 Speaker 1: pass of the morning. I grab all my gear and 161 00:09:34,559 --> 00:09:38,240 Speaker 1: pursue him until I'm covered in ticks and sweat. Counted 162 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:40,679 Speaker 1: six of the nasty little blood suckers on me at 163 00:09:40,679 --> 00:09:43,320 Speaker 1: one time. That's a lot for our neck of the woods. 164 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 1: I wander back to the truck, watch the rain clouds boil, 165 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:50,960 Speaker 1: make an elk tongue sandwich, packed my gear and start 166 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:56,800 Speaker 1: heading home. On the road in front of me, that 167 00:09:56,880 --> 00:10:00,920 Speaker 1: little storm knocked over three fire killed poe lines, which, 168 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:04,199 Speaker 1: of course was no match for the world's most perfect 169 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:07,439 Speaker 1: little truck companion, my steel m s A two d 170 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:11,439 Speaker 1: C battery power chainsaw. Bet you long time listeners were 171 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:14,920 Speaker 1: wondering how I was going to get that steel plug in. Huh. Well, 172 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:17,200 Speaker 1: I want to take a second to thank all of 173 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:21,920 Speaker 1: you long time listeners, in one in particular, Megan in Utah. 174 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:24,040 Speaker 1: And you know we should thank your dad and mom 175 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:27,319 Speaker 1: as well, who gently nudge you towards the out of doors. 176 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:30,600 Speaker 1: I agree with them, by the way, which you probably 177 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:35,200 Speaker 1: hate to hear because you're sixteen. So anyway, thank you, Megan, 178 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:37,920 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening and watching our shows 179 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:40,680 Speaker 1: and supporting Steve and jan Us and myself and the 180 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:43,920 Speaker 1: rest of the crew at meat Eater. And you are correct. 181 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:46,880 Speaker 1: Finding ways to do what you love and what matters 182 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:49,760 Speaker 1: is a good way to go about life. So far, 183 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:53,120 Speaker 1: so good, anyway, So get healthy. And while you are 184 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:56,480 Speaker 1: working towards health, remember there are a lot of things 185 00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:59,200 Speaker 1: you can do from the indoors to appreciate the out 186 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:02,800 Speaker 1: of doors, like starting a bird journal or studying up 187 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:05,440 Speaker 1: on the stars, so when you finally get outside, you 188 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:11,160 Speaker 1: won't get lost. Alright, Moving on with a quick stop 189 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:15,240 Speaker 1: the corrections desk. Be careful hunting with sticks. It may 190 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:18,760 Speaker 1: not be illegal means of take. Always look at your 191 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:22,000 Speaker 1: state and sometimes federal regulations as to what is a 192 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:25,240 Speaker 1: legal means of dispatching an animal in the area you 193 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:28,599 Speaker 1: are hunting. For instance, as the writer Ben Long is 194 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:30,800 Speaker 1: soon to point out on an article at the meat 195 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:34,960 Speaker 1: eater dot com, if you hunt grouse with a stick, or, 196 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:38,520 Speaker 1: as the state of Idaho puts it, a hand thrown missile, 197 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 1: you are legal if you do so in the state 198 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:46,760 Speaker 1: of Montana. However, you are not using a listed in 199 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:52,800 Speaker 1: the regulations legal means of take. So pay attention. Next, 200 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:57,400 Speaker 1: Ovi Paris, you lay eggs viviparis, you give birth to 201 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 1: lie of young. But some of you, like the shark, 202 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:05,240 Speaker 1: lay eggs inside your body that then hatch inside of 203 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:08,880 Speaker 1: you and then are birthed. Some snakes do this as well. 204 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:11,480 Speaker 1: You just can't make up your minds and you are 205 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:18,080 Speaker 1: called Ova over Paris. Moving onto the shark desk, oh 206 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:22,000 Speaker 1: search recently tracked a female ten foot tiger shark from 207 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:26,199 Speaker 1: Africa to nearly Indonesia and nearly four thousand miles swim 208 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:29,880 Speaker 1: across the Indian Ocean. This is the longest tiger shark 209 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:34,679 Speaker 1: migration ever documented. And the question is what was her motivation. 210 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:37,520 Speaker 1: For those of you who are thinking that the ocean 211 00:12:37,640 --> 00:12:40,680 Speaker 1: is just one huge body of water, of course fish 212 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:44,040 Speaker 1: and sharks swim around, well I get it, but that's 213 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:47,320 Speaker 1: not typically how a lot of these species work. In fact, 214 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:50,680 Speaker 1: that's what makes the ocean so difficult to understand. We 215 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:54,760 Speaker 1: don't really know how connected it is or isn't. When 216 00:12:54,760 --> 00:12:58,040 Speaker 1: you talk about blue fin tuna imperiled, that is true 217 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:02,920 Speaker 1: in some populations, but in other populations they're doing just fine. 218 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:06,320 Speaker 1: At least that's what we think. But tagged fish or 219 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:09,640 Speaker 1: sharks like this ten footer may tell us that one 220 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:13,520 Speaker 1: population may be visiting another or actually be part of 221 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:19,320 Speaker 1: the same population. Moving on, Whether you claim to love 222 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:21,920 Speaker 1: to hate wolves, you still kind of love them. We 223 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:25,040 Speaker 1: all do. Predators have been a huge part of the 224 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:29,360 Speaker 1: stories of opening up America, KG grizzly bears, untreatable lions, 225 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:32,120 Speaker 1: and the last of the wolves. At the meat eater 226 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:35,800 Speaker 1: dot com, Spencer new Heart reports in his latest edition 227 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:39,440 Speaker 1: of bar Room Banter on three Toes, the west most 228 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:43,480 Speaker 1: notorious livestock killer. Three Toes the Wolf was a tri 229 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:47,360 Speaker 1: state agent operating in Montana and North and South Dakota 230 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:52,320 Speaker 1: from nineteen twelve to twenty. The unmistakable print of three 231 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:56,880 Speaker 1: Toes was synonymous with livestock killings. Dozens of hunters and 232 00:13:56,920 --> 00:14:00,600 Speaker 1: trappers failed to kill the notorious wolf. During one pursuit, 233 00:14:00,679 --> 00:14:03,880 Speaker 1: the wolf even stopped to kill fifteen corraled sheet before 234 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:07,880 Speaker 1: carrying on with you know, being chased. Eventually, the long 235 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:11,040 Speaker 1: arm of agricultural loss stepped up to put an end 236 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:14,000 Speaker 1: to three Toes. The U. S d A brought in 237 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:17,200 Speaker 1: a famous trapper to catch a famous wolf which, of 238 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:22,280 Speaker 1: course he did, and in true melancholic Western fashion, Three Toes, 239 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:26,560 Speaker 1: even though alive at capture, succumbed not to his wounds 240 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 1: but from the broken heart caused by captivity. To find 241 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:37,160 Speaker 1: out just how much damage three Toes did, go to 242 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:39,760 Speaker 1: the meat eater dot com and look up Spencer new 243 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:42,880 Speaker 1: Hearst bar room banter. I'll give you a hint. In 244 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:46,920 Speaker 1: nineteen twenties dollars, a loss of fifty thou dollars was 245 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:49,800 Speaker 1: credited to the infamous wolf. Give it a read. It's 246 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:52,359 Speaker 1: a good one. And if you don't like these romantic 247 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:55,520 Speaker 1: notions of the West and it's terrible wolves and bears, 248 00:14:55,920 --> 00:14:59,120 Speaker 1: just think of where poor old Leonardo DiCaprio would be 249 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:02,440 Speaker 1: without the grip. He couldn't very well win an oscar 250 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:05,880 Speaker 1: by grunting and dragging himself through the British Columbia snow, 251 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:13,520 Speaker 1: trying to outcrawl some undulate chewing on its cud, moving 252 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:19,080 Speaker 1: on to the Colorado Desk. April, Colorado Parks and Wildlife 253 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:23,640 Speaker 1: have voted to eliminate wildlife contests dealing with prairie dogs, coyotes, 254 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:27,000 Speaker 1: and all fur bearers. This vote is to amand an 255 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:31,640 Speaker 1: earlier rule that basically eliminated just coyote killing contests in 256 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:35,200 Speaker 1: two thousand nineteen. Colorado is not the first state to 257 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:40,320 Speaker 1: do this. California, Vermont, New Mexico, Massachusetts, and Arizona have 258 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:45,920 Speaker 1: all done this. Partial bands are in place in North Carolina, Utah, Washington, Montana, 259 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:49,200 Speaker 1: and Idaho. Why I say you have to think about 260 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:53,040 Speaker 1: the Western spirit of man conquering the wild yet praising 261 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:55,520 Speaker 1: the spirit of the wild in our barroom banter story 262 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:59,800 Speaker 1: is this kyote and prairie dog contests were not designed 263 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:03,160 Speaker 1: with the original intent of folks glory killing for fun 264 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:08,160 Speaker 1: and prizes. These contests were designed to draw enough rifles 265 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:12,040 Speaker 1: to a single spot, a township or county that was 266 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:17,480 Speaker 1: experiencing agricultural and economic hardships, places where food producing ground 267 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:20,120 Speaker 1: was being chewed up by prairie dog towns, or a 268 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:24,360 Speaker 1: coyote population boom was coinciding with calving or lambing season. 269 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 1: The practice just stayed for right or wrong, sometimes right, 270 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:31,520 Speaker 1: sometimes wrong. People who did not get a lot of 271 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:35,000 Speaker 1: socializing came together with a common goal in mind. They 272 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:38,120 Speaker 1: had a meal together and breathe collective size of relief. 273 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:40,120 Speaker 1: When coyotes were turned in at the end of the 274 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:43,720 Speaker 1: contest relief that the predator would not be taking spring 275 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:48,520 Speaker 1: lambs or calves. This occasional happening, of course, morphed into 276 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:52,040 Speaker 1: something else. All I can say is don't blame the state. 277 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:55,600 Speaker 1: Some of the people who participated in these contests had 278 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:58,880 Speaker 1: already done their part in ruining them long before the 279 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:03,720 Speaker 1: state got involved. Instead of periodic contest aimed at management, 280 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:06,960 Speaker 1: the local communities held them every year in order to 281 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:09,840 Speaker 1: get the economic game from the gas and beer buyers. 282 00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:14,160 Speaker 1: Contestants cheated by bringing in recently killed, are previously killed, 283 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:16,760 Speaker 1: and frozen animals from outside of the area in order 284 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:20,240 Speaker 1: to win the prizes offered, and on occasion, those same 285 00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:23,320 Speaker 1: bad apples would go above and beyond and making sure 286 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:26,560 Speaker 1: that if anyone were to look at the contest, they 287 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:30,280 Speaker 1: would not see an attempt at curbing a spiking coyote 288 00:17:30,359 --> 00:17:34,080 Speaker 1: or prairie dog population. They would only see bad behavior. 289 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:37,600 Speaker 1: What does not get said in these instances is that 290 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:40,600 Speaker 1: because of the lack of coyote or prairie dog contest, 291 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:43,960 Speaker 1: the result is not a super happy prairie dog town 292 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:47,920 Speaker 1: or coyote pack. The coyotes, if they become trouble, will 293 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:50,920 Speaker 1: likely be shot from a helicopter paid for in part 294 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:55,040 Speaker 1: from the agricultural community. The prairie dog town will be poisoned, 295 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:57,800 Speaker 1: if not by the rancher, by the periodic plague that 296 00:17:57,880 --> 00:18:01,639 Speaker 1: rolls through their communities. The only question I have for 297 00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:06,679 Speaker 1: CPW is explain why you stop at furbears and prairie dogs. 298 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:11,399 Speaker 1: A quick search on American Fishing contest dot Com showed 299 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:14,640 Speaker 1: a hundred and forty one phishing contests in the state 300 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:18,440 Speaker 1: of Colorado that's just scheduled for two thousand twenty. Why 301 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:21,840 Speaker 1: is one okay and not the other? Moving on to 302 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:26,720 Speaker 1: the ever popular crime desk, first stop, New York State. 303 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:30,600 Speaker 1: Outside of the town at Keysville, located in the Adirondacks, 304 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:34,119 Speaker 1: two rock climbers are ticketed for failure to adhere to 305 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:37,600 Speaker 1: a route closure on poke O Moonshine, which is a 306 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:40,640 Speaker 1: big rock face that has been identified as a peregrine 307 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:44,800 Speaker 1: falcon nesting site. Forest rangers and the d C are 308 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:48,600 Speaker 1: working to monitor nesting activity and reopen routes that won't 309 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:52,240 Speaker 1: disturb the peregrinhs. The last time tickets were issued for 310 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:55,199 Speaker 1: a violation like this was back in two thousand, so 311 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:58,040 Speaker 1: this doesn't seem like a common issue. In fact, I 312 00:18:58,119 --> 00:19:01,920 Speaker 1: found where many rock climbing clubs volunteer time to help 313 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:05,000 Speaker 1: monitor the falcons. On a side note, I got to 314 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:08,040 Speaker 1: hunt with some falconer's last year. Those birds can hit 315 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:10,240 Speaker 1: two hundred miles per hour when they go into their 316 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:14,720 Speaker 1: stoop or dive. Very cool birds who you know nesting rocks, 317 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:17,160 Speaker 1: So stay off of them until the birds are gone. 318 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:23,359 Speaker 1: Next up the birthplace of the Blues, Mississippi. Fun fact 319 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:26,240 Speaker 1: for you. Mississippi has two hundred and four native fish 320 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:29,080 Speaker 1: species and it is the home of the Teddy Bear. 321 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:33,800 Speaker 1: It is also home Kenneth Ray, britt Tony Grant Smith, 322 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:38,800 Speaker 1: Alan Shelton Morgan and Brianna Janine McKay. These four are 323 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:42,440 Speaker 1: not a new pop country band like Georgia Florida Line. 324 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:47,240 Speaker 1: They are, however, wildlife violators. They somehow managed to rack 325 00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:51,520 Speaker 1: up about two hundred eighty wildlife violations in two thousand nineteen. 326 00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:56,040 Speaker 1: The charges are trespassing and the poaching of almost one 327 00:19:56,200 --> 00:20:01,360 Speaker 1: hundred turkeys, all in one season. I should note that 328 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:06,440 Speaker 1: Brianna Janine McKay only received five of those violations out 329 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:10,399 Speaker 1: of the two charged amongst the group, which just means 330 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:14,800 Speaker 1: she's doing less bad stuff. Remember, Brianna, it's hard to 331 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:19,720 Speaker 1: soar with the eagles when you're surrounded by turkeys. That's 332 00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:21,840 Speaker 1: all I've got for you this week. Thanks for listening 333 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:25,080 Speaker 1: to Col's weekend review. As per usual, if you want 334 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:27,280 Speaker 1: to get a hold of me, right in to a 335 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:30,359 Speaker 1: s k C. A L. At the Meat Eater dot 336 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:33,879 Speaker 1: com that's asked Cal at the meat eater dot com. 337 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:36,399 Speaker 1: Tell me what I'm getting right, what I'm missing, and 338 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:39,919 Speaker 1: what's happening in your area. Thanks again, I'll talk to 339 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:47,679 Speaker 1: you next week.